"My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate--if not always diplomatically--the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound by a haunting past that Emma slowly uncovers, she sees that she might just escape.
In exhilarating prose, The Professor's Daughter traces the borderlands of race and family, contested territory that gives rise to rage, confusion, madness, and invisibility....
"My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother winds up in a coma after a freak acc...
"A brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of perspective."--The Wall Street Journal"Frank and expansive . . . Each impressionistic, deeply personal vignette is a building block, detailing Raboteau's] far-flung search for 'home'--a 'promised land' that's as brick-and-mortar tangible as it is spiritually confirming."--Chicago Tribune A decade in the making, Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion takes readers around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both one woman's quest...
"A brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of perspective."--The Wall S...
